{"id":1677,"date":"2006-07-27T20:47:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T00:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2024-10-01T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:20:11","slug":"poor-mans-f-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"Poor Man&#8217;s F-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/poormansf16\/poormansf16.jpg\" target=\"_&quot;blank&quot;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/poormansf16\/poormansf16_550w.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"930\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, a few mornings ago, I emerged from my REM fog to NBC video of Palestinian and Lebanese villages being crushed by tanks and missiles and F-16s and the sound of Matt Lauer yammering about Israel&#8217;s &#8220;right to defend itself&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows, maybe it was just the hour of the morning, or perhaps I was really and truly revulsed by Israel claiming a right to &#8220;defend itself&#8221; &#8212; by using tanks, missiles, and F-16s against already beaten-down, occupied territories in a country that&#8217;s got no imperialist power backing them up, got no tanks, got no Patriot missiles, got no F-16s, got no nukes &#8212; not to mention having no food, no water, no medicine, no services&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/posters\/poormansf16\/poormansf16.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 742kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a few mornings ago, I emerged from my REM fog to NBC video of Palestinian and Lebanese villages being crushed by tanks and missiles and F-16s and the sound of Matt Lauer yammering about Israel&#8217;s &#8220;right to defend itself&#8221;. Who knows, maybe it was just the hour of the morning, or perhaps I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,82,168,9,77],"tags":[634,635,135,1462],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","category-middle-east","category-palestine","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror","tag-f-16","tag-f16","tag-israel","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}